Lee is on the money. Is anyone else really confused? I’ve tried to indicate with the art the flashback/present divide and who the characters are but I’m getting the sense there’s some serious confusion going on on some fronts.

No problem discerning who is who or when is when – I think you guys handle the jumps in time just beautifully. And I love the ironic juxtaposition of the poster and the “good genes” line. This strip just rocks so hard!

To our lovely and talented creators:
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Don’t feel pressured to need to make the strip clear as crystal at all times. Clarity is good, and without enough some people will be turned away, but the opposite is also true. Give your readers small challenges here and there, make them stop and scratch their heads from time to time so they go back and read and look more carefully. People can get lazy in their reading, especially in something as instantaneously available and “frivolous” as a webcomic. Keep them on their toes!
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~D.

Identical pose in first panel == flashback entry, in my opinion. At some point we’ll likely return yet again to the same pose in the first panel, with the up-to-date hair and whoever is currently in her bed now that Darwin isn’t…

Hopefully that isn’t a spoiler, it just seems to me like the ‘most obvious course of events’.

Then again, this is hardly a comic strip that relies on ‘the most obvious course of events’. It has a manticore that goes “Wheeeeee!!!”

Interesting! I’m hoping the scene connection will be the revealing of Ella’s current lover. I’ve always found it extremely interesting as well as difficult to wrap my head around the idea that “once lovers” can be “now friends.” I guess I’m still a virgin in that sense.

Sophie and Jenn: I think you’ve done everything necessary to make it clear, and the connections you’ve drawn are appropriately subtle and amazing. I couldn’t ask for a better technique than the frame coloring and all the color shading. If some people don’t get it, that’s what the comments section is for, and I’m sure they’d figure it out within the next few strips anyway.

This is such a great storyline and the art is so quirky and loveable. You obviously put a lot of effort into your work and we all appreciate it. I started reading DCIGH awhile ago and now I have several friends who are also hooked on it and we look forward to the Tuesday updates every weekend! Thank you so much for putting something this fun out there for others to love.

I agree, I managed (at least I *think* I managed) to keep the current/flashback timelines straight, but I’m glad I checked the comments. I found it last week, one of my Twitter buddies pointed to it, and I sat down and caught it all up.

Now that I get that this is part of the flashback, I’m starting to understand why last week’s strip went the way it did. “What if something happens?” and they both end up lost in their own thoughts. Something obviously *did* happen. Now to be patient and find out what…

Awww! I really like how the 4th panel in a way mirrors that record sleeve. It’s not right in your face, but it’s clever, even if it’s a happy accident.
Dunno if it’s just me but I don’t find anything “sexy” about this page, just really intimate and really sweet. I don’t mean that as a criticism.. it’s just.. uhm.. I think you get me. There’s no innate smuttiness, just happiness.

Also guys, if you’re really getting lost when-is-when, look at the panel borders. All of the flashbacks have this nice faded colour. Took me a minute to notice they have it, but it’s a nice clue without having it rubbed in your face.

I think it’s really self explanatory…you’re flashback pictures have a softer, almost pastel vale over them and the present moments are very clear. It’s not at all confusing so I don’t think you should worry.

I really love the rolling stone poster of her parents on the mirror, it’s touching